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Tort Liability for Human Rights Abuses
This book challenges the community of international lawyers to think again about how they can use the Alien Tort Statute.
| Author(s) | By George P Fletcher. |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format | Paperback / softback |
| Pages | 222 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 3 Oct 2008 |
| Availability | Available |
This book challenges the community of international lawyers to think again about how they can use the Alien Tort Statute.
1 General tort principles: the general principles of the common law and civil law systems. Why tort law is of importance to the international practitioner today. 2 Conflicting Paradigms: fairness vs. efficiency, how this plays out in the new era of u
George P Fletcher is the Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia University in New York.
